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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Niels Bohr

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

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